I’ve been back in America for two weeks. Enough time to reunite with friends and family, attend to administrative needs, and shift from travel mode to MFA in Creative Writing mode. These two weeks also gave me time to reflect upon […]Read More ›

Here are 33 travel tips I compiled during my RTW trip.  Hope something in here helps you. PREP: 1.  Consider the weather. I started my trip in February in India and moved south to north. In March, I was in the […]Read More ›

I love my country. I’m proud to be an American and I’ll never take my freedoms for granted. That said, I learned a couple of things overseas that I might not have realized in America, at least not this year… […]Read More ›

When I was backpacking through India in February, I met an Australian named Sarah. At the ripe age of 25, Sarah looked around one day and realized that she had it all: a doctorate in veterinarian science, a job at […]Read More ›

The Greyhound dropped me off in Savannah, Georgia, where I spent two days with a friend from college. We had not seen each other for five years due to overlapping deployment schedules, but once reunited it felt like we hadn’t […]Read More ›